Biodiversity of endophytic bacteria which colonize red clover nodules, roots, stems and foliage and their influence on host growth

A large diversity of non-rhizobial endophytes found in legume root nodules in Flanders (Belgium)

“…However, in our study no symbiosis or nitrogen fixation related genes were detected for the isolates of this genus. Some genera including, Arthrobacter, Microbacterium, Rhodococcus, Sphingomonas, Bacillus, Cohnella, Pseudomonas and Herbaspirillum, were previously reported from root nodules of several legume species (Sturz et al, 1997;Mantelin et al, 2006;Zakhia et al, 2006;Putnam and Miller, 2007;Zurdo-Pineiro et al, 2007;Palaniappan et al, 2010). Other bacterial genera encountered, including Pantoea, Corynebacterium, Chryseobacterium, Sphingomonas and Xanthomonas, were described previously as endophytes in certain plant tissues including legume plant tissue (Burch and Sarathchandra, 2006).…”

Novel Burkholderia bacteria isolated from Lebeckia ambigua – A perennial suffrutescent legume of the fynbos

“…Secondly, they may have resided intercellularly in the nodule tissue and were protected from the sterilant (Barreto et al, 2012;Dudeja et al, 2012). Thirdly, they may have entered the nodule as co-inoculants with other nodulating strains (Bai et al, 2003;Denton et al, 2003;Dudeja et al, 2012;Egamberdieva et al, 2010;Sturz et al, 1997). Finally they may be rhizobial strains which have lost the capacity to nodulate upon sub-culture (Howieson et al, 2000b;Sachs et al, 2010).…”

Assessment of Rice Associated Bacterial Ability to Enhance Rice Seed Germination and Rice Growth Promotion

“…amples ere ept at C in refrigerator. The epiphytic, endophytic and rhizospheric culturable bacteria were isolated according to Lindow et al (1978), Sturz et al (1997) and Mohite (2013), respectively. For isolation of epiphytic bacteria, rice samples of leaves and stems were cut in to small sizes and separately put in 500 ml flasks with 200 ml of 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH:7.0) and 1 g/l peptone.…”